I haven't seen the movie, but the video game you describe sounds like "Astro cock" or something similar -- a shareware game I used to play in the late 80s/early 90s. You could use a condom as a force-field, had to contend with heat-seeking dildos, and went limp when you died.

I remember this as a USA Up All Night staple, I enjoyed it for being cheap and stupid and corny and disjointed, made even more so by the edits for TV. Plus I thought the actress playing Miss Anne Thrope was hot. Stupid punny names be damned.

I should pick up the DVD some time, give it the old "does it hold up to the nostalgia" test.

Funny you should mention plumbers and Einstein...Albert Einstein was once asked what he might have done with his life had he not gone into physics. He replied that he would have liked to have become a plumber. The plumbers' union made him an honorary member for life after that one.